OF DOUGLAS GORDON
Fantasy is what?
Don’t really agree that in the cinema there’s nothing behind the screen
on one side and not on the other.
Until six in the morning,
generation will remember the irritation
like the object, itself the remote control.
Andy Warhol
saw it in a toilet at a party.
Go ahead with an idea
over an excruciatingly long period.
Reality was
desperately looking for something in it that wasn’t even there,
of what makes a mirror
not a piece of glass.
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 5-25-05 (7:27 PM)
Given the rare luxury of re-listening to the live interview with Douglas
Gordon which had been my source, I chanced upon an out-take beginning
with "f" which works better for me than the line which originally began
this work ("fun, with which this is is intended") or the line of ellipses
with which I first thought to replace it. I'll post the two acrostic
sonnets which constitute the full text of my "OF DOUGLAS GORDON" separately.
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